Neck-yoke holdback.



PATENTED APR. 25, 1905. J. TREGELLAS.

NECK YOKE HOLDBACK.

APPLIOATIQN FILED FEB. 13,1904.

Patented April 25, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

JOSIAH TREGELLAS, OF CRIPPLEOREEK, COLORADO.

NECK-YOKE HOLDBACK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 788,177, dated April 25, 1905.

Application filed February 13, 1904:. Serial No. 193,433.

To all whmn it 71cm concern.-

Be it known that I, JOsIAH TREGELLAS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Gripplecreek, in the county of Teller and State of Colorado, have invented a Locking Safety Neck-Yoke Holdback for the Tongues or Poles of Vehicles, of which the following is a specification.

The purpose of this invention is to prevent accidents, destruction, and death resulting from neck-yokes slipping from tongues or poles of vehicles, 620., drawn by horses and other animals.

The invention is intended for use on the tongues or poles of wagons, buggies, reapers, rakes, and all such horse-drawn farm machinery and on all vehicles, machinery, implements, and engines, civil and military, that are drawn by horses or other animals. My locking safety neck-yoke holdback will meet the need of a safety device of this kind by securely locking the neck-yoke by its ring to the tongue or pole of the above-named vehicles, &c.

The following is a specification of my invention, a model of which, attached to a representative front end of a tongue or pole, and a drawing accompany for reference.

1 is a base-plate that extends from 1 to 2 at the front end of the tongueor pole A. 3 is part of this base-plate extending from it at a right angle, having a cheek in the lower end from line 3 to line 4. This extension or holdback is shown by lines 5 and 6. From '7 to 8 and from 9 to 10 is a locking lever or loop K, hinged in the said cheek by a screw or bolt 11. The said lever or loop has a lug B at the front end, shown by lines O D E as extending into and through an opening in the base-plate to receive it. This lug is to brace the lever or loop in its closed position. The

lever has a straight spring extending from 19. to 13, held ina protecting-recess, that extends almost its entire length, by a screw 14. The recess is to keep the spring in place, as well as to protect it. On the end of this spring a locking-bar is fastened by either a rivet or screw. This locking-bar 15 is crosswise to the spring and extends across the check, the end view being shown in the drawing. This locking-bar fits into a recess as deep as the bars thickness. Half of this recess is in the lever and half is in the cheek. The spring holds the locking-bar in its recess, preventing the lever from opening, and therefore preventing the neck-yoke ring from slipping from the space F intended for it until the locking-bar has been drawn out by the linger and thumb, which can easily take hold of the ends of the bar on the side toward the lever. The lever can then be opened to admit or release the neck-yoke ring and is locked shut by pressing it to its closed position. The recess G in the holdback extension of the baseplate allows the hinge end 16 of the lever to pass to line 17, which serves as a stop for the lever. The space or loop H is provided that lead-horses may be hitched there, if needed. The base-plate is fastened to the tongue by the screws I 1 I, from two to four screws being used. The top plate J is to prevent the tongue from wearing and to give it strength and a firm anchoring-surface for and under the heads of the screws or attaching-bolts II I.

The principal parts of my invention are to be made of metal, (cast) What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, is*

'1. In a locking, safety, neck-yoke hold back, the combination of a base-plate portion having a holdback extension which has a cheek and hinge screw or bolt, with a locking-lever hinged to or in the said check by the said screw or bolt, the said locking-lever having the loop H, the opening F for the neck-yoke ring, the recessed spring, the lug B, the locking-bar, and the recess for the locking-bar, as described and for the purpose specified.

2. In a locking, safety, neck-yoke holdback, the combination of a base-plate having an opening for the locking-lever lug, which lug the said opening is to receive to cooperate With the cheek in the holdback extension of l to this specification in the presence of two subthe base plate in bracing the locking-lever, scribing" Witnesses.

the rear end of Which, in opening, swings to 1 1 the front wall of the recess in the base of the JOSIAH (LRLGELLAS' 5 holdback extension of the base-plate, which Witnesses:

GEORGE BENNET, JAMES BEOKWITH.

Wall serves as a stop for the locking-lever.

In testimony WhereOfI have signed my name 

